Premier Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday
urged the European Union to "think like a team" amid a stalemate
on the EU's economic response to the coronavirus.
The Eurogroup adjourned till Thursday after a 16-hour-long
overnight session in which northern deficit hawks continued to
reject southern members' bid to introduce 'coronabonds' to fund
the response.
Conte told Vatican News and Vatican daily L'Osservatore
Romano that "the EU must be fit for its role to tackle the
challenge facing it and to do that it is called on to make a
decided change of pace from the political and social standpoint.
"For those who hold dear the EU, for those who believe in a
united, strong and solidarity-based Europe, it is time to take
resolute steps, promoting all the means for the reconstruction.
"If we want to preserve our common home, it is time to think
like a team".
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